Archive for the ‘Green Markets 0917’ Category

A Freehills Review revealed that it was expected that climate change would be both affecting and driving M&A activity in Australia well in advance of 2012, in a number of ways; and that disclosure issues were also likely to come to the fore in bid and fundraising documentation. Read the rest of this entry »

Soldiers who headed into combat typically dumped partly used batteries in key equipment, such as night-sight gear, to make certain it won’t fade to black when it really mattered, reported The Australian Financial Review (31/8/2007, p.79).

Policies and programs to date on encouraging demand management in NSW, but also across every other jurisdiction within Australia, have been inadequately suited to the nature of how energy is consumed and managed, according to the Australian Business Council for Sustainable Energy submission to the Owen Inquiry into Electricity Supply in NSW (June 2007). Read the rest of this entry »

Three planned, peaceful APEC demonstrations were banned by Police and Military in Sydney as unprecedented powers that allow police to target unruly protesters during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit came into effect, reported The Canberra Times, (31/8/2007), p. 8. Read the rest of this entry »

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s situation at home was so knife-edged that he could not afford to stay away from Tokyo a day longer than necessary, now that his new cabinet was launched and the Diet, or parliament, was to resume its sittings on September 10. Read the rest of this entry »

Primo Alui Joelianto, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Asia Pacific-Africa department would lead Indonesia’s delegation of bureaucrats at the senior’ officials meetingsin Sydney, told The Australian, (1/9/2007), p. 23, he was particularly concerned to make sure Howard’s climate change declaration did not detract from the UN climate change conference in Bali in December. Read the rest of this entry »